The new trade system is exactly that same as the old trade system, except for the fact that if people want to trade stuff they buy, they have to wait 30 days.
Though I have a feeling we're gonna see a lot of "I've waited 30 days and still can't trade" when in fact its only been 29 days and X hours and they still have X hours to go.
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it will be the same. but the other person will have to gift the game (inventory gift) to you, instead of using the trade window (unless, of course, the ohter person has that "gift" on his/her inventory from the past 30 days)
it basically like trading game keys (like the ones you get from GMG), you have to hope the other person would not screw you.
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scamming works because people is naive. if you trade in the way you should, using the trade window, you are now even more safe than before, since that game can't be charged back (30 days is more than enough for valve to get the and verified the payment of any credit card).
if you trade outside of the trade window, you are on your own, it is risky, it was risky before, but we all do it anyway because fuck it, we want cheap games.
traders will now, probably, buy discounted games in bulk, and trade them for more profit a month later.
Kids and naive people will get scammed more often now, and the scammer will not be punished in any way. it sucks, but maybe this way people will learn that they can't get CoD: AW for 5 TF2 keys.
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WRONG! chargeback can work up to 180 days -or so I've been told-, so it's not safer. This sh-- was made so Valve wash their hands when ppl is getting scammed.
So, to sum up, you can get screwed over even after HALF a year has past. Nice, huh? good luck trusting that "trader" now. Besides, who wants to wait 30 days to get a game? and let's not forget, it's goodbye to price bugs and offerts too! (you know, as in traders won't hold that special price that long)
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Yep, goodbye to price bugs. I feel so sorry for you that you can't fuck devs out of money anymore.
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As someone else mentioned, this will actually mean less sales during sales. During a sale, when the game is cheaper, a lot of people buy the games and IMMEDIATELY trade them... the negotiations are over, discussions finished, the one person starts putting in keys, while the other buys the game and then puts it in trade window. This change will stop that.
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Everyone is talking about the 30 days lock thing, yet I think the real issue here is the "AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting = false" restriction, which is now the default option for every new game released. In the long run, as there will be more and more games like this (for example, CS:GO just got locked some weeks ago), people will not only be unable to trade, but unable to gift games to different regions as well.
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I find it fascinating that "game rights" on loan from Valve are still viewed as a commodity by so many people. It's almost as strange as people spending their hard-earned cash on a weapon-unlock.
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i traded a lot of keys for games. so this isnt possible anymore?
like imma ask someone to get me a game from a store and then we trade 5 minutes later keys for the game?
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